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AN ethnographical account of the Fox Indians has recently been issued by the Smithsonian Institution. It has been edited by Margaret Welpley Fisher, and is based upon material which has an exceptional claim to authority. The author, William Jones, was born on the Sauk and Fox Reservation in Oklahoma in 1871. His mother was English, but his father was the son of a white man and an Indian mother. Up to the age of nine years, Jones was reared by his Indian grandmother, living the life of an Indian boy. On her death and after a period as a cowboy, he entered the Hampton Institute, passed to Andover and Harvard, taking the degree of M.A. at the latter in 1900 and Ph.D. in 1904. His intention had been to study medicine; but under the influence of the late Prof. Putnam he turned to anthropology, spending his vacations in field work among Algonquian tribes and making a comparative study of Algonquian religions. This field, however, afforded little hope of a career in research; and in 1906 the Field Museum offered him the choice of three expeditions, of which he elected for an expedition to the Philippine Islands. In the spring of 1909 he was murdered by the Ilongots.
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Tribal Origins and Culture Among the Fox Indians. Nature 144, 914–915 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144914b0
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